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Now this is a real rich family with a big mansion that as a Butler you are responsible for the upkeep as well as appointments, driving the family when needed and you're on call 24/7. You are also a live-in employee. However as a Butler you not only get a great salary but all the perks and benefits of being one.
Room and board, including a car, mobile telephone, 4 weeks annual leave, once a year airline ticket home, etc. You can be expected to work 60+ hours or more a week.
Would you be willing to do that for $100K and some nice benefits?
Now this is a real rich family with a big mansion that as a Butler you are responsible for the upkeep as well as appointments, driving the family when needed and you're on call 24/7. You are also a live-in employee. However as a Butler you not only get a great salary but all the perks and benefits of being one.
Room and board, including a car, mobile telephone, 4 weeks annual leave, once a year airline ticket home, etc. You can be expected to work 60+ hours or more a week.
Would you be willing to do that for $100K and some nice benefits?
The "you're on call 24/7" is bothersome. That's not really mentally healthy for any job. It may be a little different when you're the owner/boss and the company is your "baby" (of for someone who literally has a baby), but in this case, when you're at the whim of someone else's every need and want, no. And for those hours (60+ a week), you might as well try to come up with a plan to start some type of business venture and then have some autonomy over what you're doing (although there would be no guarantee to even make $1, let alone $100K).
Some exceptions to shying away from this might be:
1. Obviously, if this was the only option to be able to eat
2. If the "on call 24/7" had some downtime built into it (if you could have a subcontractor butler)
3. You needed a legitimate way to build up your savings fast or you could do this for 10-15 years, save and invest like crazy (spending very little money with no major downfalls in the economy) and be able to retire much younger than you normally would have been able to retire. Quite a few things would have to fall into place exactly right to pull all of this off. Plus, since this would have been your life for 10-15 years, it would be interesting to see how you transitioned into a more leisurely life.
Now this is a real rich family with a big mansion that as a Butler you are responsible for the upkeep as well as appointments, driving the family when needed and you're on call 24/7. You are also a live-in employee. However as a Butler you not only get a great salary but all the perks and benefits of being one.
Room and board, including a car, mobile telephone, 4 weeks annual leave, once a year airline ticket home, etc. You can be expected to work 60+ hours or more a week.
Would you be willing to do that for $100K and some nice benefits?
In Connecticut: No.
In California: No.
In Washington State: Absolutely.
In Nevada: Absolutely.
Those kiboshing such an arrangement are not thinking economically.
Live-in employee = no living expenses = higher effective salary.
Car included = no vehicle or travel expenses = higher effective salary.
4 weeks leave = better than 90% of employers.
Washington State, Nevada = no state income tax = higher effective salary.
In such an arrangement, I would work for two years, stack chips and buy investment property. Nothing says you can't continue going to school and getting degrees while you do this, either.
Complaining about menial labor - this is the problem with America. People don't want to do basic, hard work. I would, in a hot minute.
As far as 60+ hours a week, I've already worked 80 hour weeks. 60+ is a walk in the park especially if I don't have to care about housing expenses along the way.
Then of course there's the "hot rich daughter" side effect.
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